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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Fraud email example:

From: "from Juan Cruz Desk" <juancruz@zwallet.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: eurosecurity@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:37:57 +0200
Subject: notification

Dear,

I am Mr.Juan Cruz, a citizen of the United State of America and a
staff of the United Nations (UN), I know that this mail will be of
great surprise to you. I got your e-mail address from the Internet as
I was soliciting for a partner who will work with us.

In recent times, there have been conflicts all over the world
especially in the Middle East, which has been of top concern to the
UN. I happen to be one of the officials assigned to Iraq. I also
played a great part in seeing that Afghanistan is been rebuilt and
that casualties, especially children are well taken care of. During
this period, my partners and I were able to secure some amount of
money amounting to Thirty Million Five Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars ($30.5M), which was moved to Europe. Moving
this fund was easy because of the connections my partners had. Now that
things have settled, we want to move the money out of the deposit
company where it is deposited.

We are contacting you to work with us because we are civil servants and
cannot do it alone. The presence and participation of a neutral person
is needed to achieve this transaction hence my contacting you. Note
that all the relevant documents will be in place for this transaction
to be hitch free. For your participation, you will be getting 20% of
the total sum.

This transaction will take not more than fourteen (14) banking/working
days to be finalized from the day of commencement. Treat with to
secrecy, as we will not want a blackmail or media scandal. You are the
only person I contacted for this transaction and will hope to get your
reply ASAP for further correspondence. You can reply juancruz@zwallet.com

Yours faithfully,

Juan Cruz(MRS).

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